I love your list, Dean.
--J
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> My 8:
>
> John Steinbeck - of course.
> William Shakespeare - to clear up any mysteries about authorship.
> Mozart - to have some nice party music.
> Leonardo - To clear up a few mysteries about hidden symbolism in his work.
> Jesus Christ - To clear up a few mysteries about exactly what he preached.
> Mary Magdalene - For the female perspective with J.C.
>
> Final 2 - you'll never guess.
>
> George Carlin - If you have J.C. at the table, you have to have
> George, plus I want to hear him say to Leonardo "You're a FAAAAAAAAG!"
>
> Finally...
>
> Great-Grandfather Oisboid - to provide a link from what I know about
> my grandfather to other relatives, to hear about his father and
> grandfather, and where they're from.
>
> So I'm sentimental...
>
> --- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com<OliveStarlightOrchestra%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Joy McCann"
>
> <joy.mccann_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > David Foster Wallace, E.M. Forster, Oscar Wilde, Harriet Tubman, Lillian
> > Helman, Gertrude Stein, W,H, Auden, Christopher Isherwood. If one of 'em
> > could't make it, Annie Oakley
> > --J
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:10 AM, Rin Watt <katecwatt_at_...> wrote:
> >
> > > hmmmm....
> > >
> > > Martin Luther King, Jane Austen, FDR, Dorothy Parker, Mary
> Shelley, Mae
> > > West, Cesar Chavez, Karl Marx, Kurt Vonnegut, Groucho Marx.
> > >
> > > Why? they were all smart, influential, progressive, and/or funny.
> > > What else is there?
> > >
> > >
> > > "Georgie Hinklemyer" <samoolives_at_> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you could invite any 8 people from history to dinner, who would
> > > they be and why?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joy M. McCann
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> > (But pixels obey me, too.)
> > Mistress of proofreading, fact-checking,
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Joy M. McCann
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(But pixels obey me, too.)
Mistress of proofreading, fact-checking,
Line-editing, and copyediting
Copy Write Editorial Services
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